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Update from LM 20.1 to 20.3 breaks Firefox site data deletion #800

Closed Scharsach closed 1 year ago

Scharsach commented 1 year ago

After updating from LM 20.1 Cinnamon to 20.3, I got the LM version of Mozilla Firefox 110.0.1 (mint-001 - 1.0). It appears the LM version 110.0.1 has a different behaviour when compared to Mozilla Firefox 110.0.1 downloaded from the Mozilla site. For example, when trying to "Clear Data" under "Privacy & Security"/"Cookies and Site Data", no cookies or site data were deleted (no error message). I noticed something similar when using the "Manage Data" option. I am not aware of other unexplained behaviour, but is this as expected? Can anybody confirm or explain this?

mtwebster commented 1 year ago

Not sure why this would be -

We start with the same tar.gz file from their website - all our packaging does is put the firefox folder in /usr/lib, and a few other things (desktop file, binfiles, icons.. ) in their appropriate locations. There shouldn't be any difference in how it deals with user profiles.

On my machine here, deleting specific site data (Manage Data) works fine with Mint's version.

Scharsach commented 1 year ago

I restarted LM firefox 110.0.1 (mint version), and this time it worked as expected deleting all site data . I suspect there is a bug related to firefox, but I don't know what.